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The man in this 1905 painting by Harold Gilman is something of an enigma. His bare feet and elegant form suggest that he might be an artist’s model, posing as a gardener in Gilman's studio if only because nobody ever did heavy digging barefoot in the British weather.
'Bath Time.' During the early 1950s Robin Darwin, the great-grandson of Charles made the Royal College a leading force in English art education, and in changing the fortunes and image of the Royal Academy of Arts. His approach was uncompromising. No shortcuts, no easy routes.
There is something rare and enigmatic happening in Michael Andrews’ art. In this oil sketch of the artist Leslie Davenport at work painting in his Norwich garden, there's sense of heat and summer light as compelling as any by Degas for example.
'Man Drinking.' Thr rich luminosity of colour and fluid handling of paint always hung on a strong sense of structure and design for Richard Diebenkorn. It's no great surprise to find his deep reverence for Cezanne.
Returning to Hilda af Klint, this is her extraordinary watercolour, 'A Map of Great Britain,' (1932), in which she said she foresaw the Second World War. A pale face blows fire towards Britain.
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Who painted this picture, what is unusual about it and where did the artist live?
Evelyn St George was undoubtedly the most important person in William Orpen's life. She gave him happiness and she gave him love. She inspired him as an artist. She told him what a great painter should do, what sort of pictures he should paint and how he should view the world.
Eileen Mayo by Edith Lawrence is a very rare depiction for 1926, a female artist by another female artist. Both were alumnae of the Grosvenor School as well as the Slade, Lawrence having studied there alongside David Bomberg, Nevinson, and Stanley Spencer.
Although Paula Rego didn't title this painting, the situation was most likely based on a real event. Many of her works have begun in actuality or someone else's storytelling. In fact, storytelling was at the heart of everything she did and everything she painted.
'The Gardens at Rutland Place.' John Aldridge had slipped off the map of the Great Bardfield artists' but his stark and wiry work is firmly back in favour together with his contemporaries Bawden and Ravilious, both watercolour painters of real genius.